Radeon Vega 8 vs Radeon R9 390

Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8
Radeon R9 390
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 390

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon Vega 8

210 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 390 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 390

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 390

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 390

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon Vega 8Radeon R9 390
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsGrenada (Grenada PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders512vs2560
Compute Units8vs40
Core clock300 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs64
TMUs32vs160

Memory Configuration

Radeon Vega 8Radeon R9 390
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs512 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Vega 8Radeon R9 390
TDP65 wattsvs275 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 390
    64.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 390
    160.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 390
    384.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 390
    5120.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better